Do you have a storyline in mind when the procedural generation team creates a planet, or do they come up with a planet and then hand it off to the concept team, and then you guys write for it?asked by Grey Dog
TL;DRProcedural generation hasn't been worked with closely yet; planets are hoped to be built from lore specs and scientific data, while the current tech is still being developed and tested.
All planets started, kind of, the Star Map was very lore-based, and we talked about stuff with design, a lot of that of what would make this system interesting and unique, what were these planets like. Procedural generation, we haven't worked too closely with yet, but they will be hopefully building the planets off the specs that we've outlined, especially now that we're starting to pull in real scientific data from our consultants to help the procedural generation team set parameters for the planets they're building.
At this point, they're working on the tech, until they get the tech into a place where it's ready to actually start building planets.
Yeah. I know all the planets in Crusader or around Crusader have drastically changed size in 2.2. So it's been fun to look at that.
Well, Crusader in 2.0 and 2.1 was the size of Jupiter, just to see how big they could make a planet. It wasn't the intended size. The goal was they wanted to see how big they could make a planet, and now they're attempting to size the planet to what it's supposed to be.
Yeah, everything's been spread out a lot more. It's really exciting stuff. 2.2 is pretty fun.
It's one of the reasons we call it the baby PU or the PU light instead of the PU. It's a test bed. They're experimenting.